Liberty Park Press

My Well-Paid Techies Are Better Than Your Software Team!

The dreary post-election hangover and defeatist mentality of those sworn to emigrate far away from this great nation has spawned excuses, accusations and conspiracy theories, some of which exist as veritable entities complete with complex layers of bizarre, circuitous logic.

While many in the academic world occupy democratic political views, it is not surprising that a concerted, passionate and strategic effort was facilitated in coordinating and quickly processing the results of a vast study on the possible effects of social network campaigning. Those heavily involved in the academic world lean towards the inception of projects and heavy workloads when dealing with dismay and hopelessness. One key point which the researchers have purposely omitted on an outreach front is that the creation of automated bots in sharing opinion, information or viewpoints is not illegal or immoral. The relevant metaphor in the real world, is the prevalence and high volume of yard signs pertaining the individual candidates or issues during the campaign cycle. A resident choosing to flood the front lawn adjacent to a busy street with thousands of political signs is well within the framework of his or her constitutional rights. While not necessarily sensible, the display of unbridled enthusiasm would surely generate conversation between neighbors or occupants of passing vehicles.

However, the most crucial aspect lost in the shuffle of the Twitter and F*&$book turf war, won handily by Trump supporters or more accurately those funded by Mr. Trump, is why did Hillary’s camp not engineer similar social networking tactics in propagating mass amounts of tweets and posts? On the monumental campuses of the software world dominated by a liberal mentality, how did a group of engineers not step-up and utilize an innovative and effective campaign in matching the efforts of Trump’s software architects?

Where was the constructive response to Trump’s guerilla-style Twitter warfare?

Access to bot source code is available to users on a global scale and does not require a high level of programming competency. Clearly, the researchers understood that by proclaiming that the election was influenced by bots and not facts, they are really damning the blatant incompetency and oversight of so-called liberal tech-gurus to effectively manipulate readily available and cost-effective software technology. The architects of the research project even go as far to indirectly praise the brilliance of the strategic play of the Trump bots in effectively mutating Pro-Clinton content with streamlined hashtags and thus reaching the core Twitter interactions and discussions of Clinton supporters . While the study’s administrators and authors are obviously intelligent, educated, talented people, the antithesis of bipartisan bot domination reality is just another example that ingenuity always defeats bureaucracy.